Order Quotes - page 9

To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing to the preservation of a false order of facts. And this false consciousness has become embodied in the prevailing technical apparatus which in turn reproduces it. (Herbert Marcuse)
All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create. View quote
Friedrich Schelling
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life-to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought. View quote
Mark Kingwell
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. View quote
Toni Morrison
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. View quote
Mark Twain
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. View quote
Winston Churchill
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. (Joseph Conrad)
Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order. View quote
Cary Grant
The time period lying between command of goods of a higher order and possession of the corresponding goods of lower order can never be eliminated. View quote
Carl Menger
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. View quote
Aristotle
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. View quote
Voltaire
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. View quote
Voltaire
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad. View quote
Milan Kundera
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. View quote
Albert Einstein
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. (Albert Einstein)
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. View quote
John Burroughs
The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge. View quote
Tony Blair
He told me once that there is no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along - trying to wound his faith in order to test it - and I was just another stone in the way of his God. View quote
Colum McCann
Yet such is the order of nature. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing. View quote
Jerome